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THE BELLE OF THE YAKLMAS Ax\D HER HUSBAND. 



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JOHNNIE CAPTAIN. 

Little Captain Johnnie, or Johnnie Captain, 
as he is called, is a small Indian boy eight 
years old, who lives in the great Yakima In- 
dian Reservation in the State of Washington. 
He is quite a famous little captain, too, and 
no other boy can ride the little cayeuses as 
Johnnie can, so he is ahva3^s to be seen at the 
races when the Indians come together in 
crowds, and the airs he puts on are very 
amusing. 

When he was six years old a lady and gen- 
tleman took him on along journey, first across 
the Rocky Mountains to St. Paul and Minne- 
apolis on the Northern Pacific railroad, and 
then by the Great Lakes down to Cleveland, 
Ohio, and after that away down to the Atlan- 
tic coast. Johnnie rode horses in the East at 
some of the great races, and when he came 



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liome to the teepee where his father and 
mother Hve the rest of the bo3^s thought him a 
very great person indeed, and he had things 
prettj' much his own way, since no one of 
these ignorant Indian boys dared to dispute 
the captain. 

It is a great sight when Johnnie starts on a 
horseback race. He wears no cap and his 
black hair is rather long and streams out be- 
hind; his brown legs are bare and he wraps 
them closeh^ around the little pony; his jacket 
is a very gorgeous affair, gaily decorated with 
beads and feathers. Off he goes, like the wind, 
down the long, dusty track, for the summers 
of Yakima county have no rain, and the dust 
settles in clouds over the people who stand 
watching. The track is not a round one stich 
as you have seen at fairs, but simph' a long 
road with a loop at the end, so long that the 
riders go almost out of sight, and look like 
specks in the distance. When they turn to come 
back the excitement begins. The Indians have, 
all been betting, putting up blankets, horses, 
beadwork, furs, anything, on one side or the 
other, and they range themselves in groups 
on either side of the track to show which 
horse they have favored. There they stand, 



A YAKIMA SUN DANCE. 

most of them on horseback, watching the rid- 
ers, and when the wiry cayeuses come gallop- 
ing in, thcA^ pay their debts, pack tip their 
goods and go home without a murmur. 

I saw one man, very old and feeble, who had 
lost his' only blanket and had had almost 
nothing to eat for da^^s, j^et he hobbled off 
without a word. It seemed YQvy sad, but it is 
the Avay the Indians have trained themslves 
to bear pain and hunger. 

Captain Johnnie's horse y^on and I was glad 
of it, for he seemed so eager, but I could not 
help wondering what sort of a man this proud 
little Indian jockey would make. 



A YAKIMA SUN DANCE. 

The Indians who live in the great State of 
Washington are not wild like the red men 
whom Columbus found when he discovered 
America, but have been taught to live as white 
men do, and to till the earth instead of living 
entirely by fishing and hunting. 

Man3' of them still cling to their old wa3^s, 
however, and even a wealthy Indian will keep 
his Avagon and machines in his nice wooden 
house, and live in an old teepee with his family. 



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The Yakima tribe have tried hard to stay 
wild, and not to do what the palefaces wished 
them to, and so there are about two hundred 
of them on this beautiful reservation who live 
down at one corner of the land on the banks 
of the Yakima river, and never allow white 
men to interfere with any of their wa3^s. They 
will not accept any help from the government, 
and though they find it very hard to get 
enough to eat, they have never yet taken food 
or blankets from the agent, who would be very 
glad to help them. They have their feasts and 
dances just as their fathers did, and live in the 
old wild way, but they are not unfriendly to 
white people and will allow them to come and 
see some of their worship, though there are 
some dances that if a white man was discov- 
ered in he would be jDut to death at once. 

I once went to a pom pom dance in the big 
teepee of Doctor Bilh^ the big medicine man of 
the tribe, and it was the strangest meeting I 
ever saw. The top of the teepee was open 
and the sunlight streamed in upon the ground 
floor, where three little fires Avere burning for 
they worship fire and Avere singing a hymn of 
praise to the great sun when we went in. 
Four men with plenty of paint on their faces 



A YAKIMA SUN DANCE. 



and feathers in their hair were beating the 
pom xDoms, or drums, with all their might, 




'CULTUS PETER," A YAKIMA. 



while all the men and women sat in rows on 
the floor, swaying back and forth, and singing 
the most nnearthU" music 3'ou ever heard. 
Part of the time the3^ all stood up and sang in 



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the same way, jumping up and down and 
beating their breasts all the time, pointing to 
the sun at the end of each Averse. 

There w^ere some very little babies there and 
they were strapped on a board which the 
mother carries onherback by means of a strap 
over her forehead. When she Avants to ride 
horseback she hangs her baby on the saddle, 
and off she goes over the prairie. 

The teepee was covered with barks and 
skins and its walls were hung with mattings 
made by the Indians from the rushes and flags 
that grow on the banks of the river. It was 
thought to be a splendid house, and Doctor 
Bill3''s poorer friends were very glad to come 
and see him. The\^ brought their whole fami- 
lies and camped there for days, having meet- 
ings da^^ and night, and staj'ing until every- 
thing he had to eat was gone. 



AN INDIAN FOURTH OF JULY. 

I think no little white boy or girl ever en- 
joyed a Fourth of Juh' celebration more than 
the Indians on the Yakima reservation did 
last year. The Fourth is a Ytry big day with 
these people, and the3^ get ready for it for 
daj^s beforehand. 

The celebration was held in a beautiful oak 
grove where the agency is located, at Fort 
Simcoe, thirt\^-five miles from Yakima, the 
nearest town, and on the night before the 
Fourth there Avere one thousand Indians en- 
camped in the grove where years ago were 
Uncle Sam's soldiers, sent out there to prevent 
the savages from murdering the few white 
people who then liA^ed in the Northwest. 

You know ever\'bod3^ wants to see the pro- 
cession on Fourth of Juh' ? Well, I wish ever^- 
one of \^ou could have seen that procession I 



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First came the Indian police, dressed as onr 
policemen are and looking very dignified. 
Then came the judges, grave and important 
looking men, and then rode the greatest of all 
the Indians, White Swan, chief of the reserva- 
tion, w^ho has for years been the friend of the 
government and sits on his horse as proudly 
as though he were a king. He was dressed in 
soldier's clothes, ^with the Stars and Stripes 
across his breast, and in his hand he carried a 
great fan made of the wing of the wld white 
swan, from which he took his name when 
he w^as a wild Indian. 

Then came the men on horseback, dressed as 
warriors, all in paint and skins and feathers, 
and all ^whooping like mad to show the wa^^ 
their fathers used to go to ^var. The women 
and girls came next, their faces daubed with 
every color, and dressed in all the gay finer3^ 
they could get, and around and around the 
square they went until the air seemed full of 
redskins and w^e almost Avondered if the\^ 
would get excited enough to begin to fight 
in real earnest. 

After the parade they had a war dance, and 
then a great big dinner in the grove, just like 
one of our own picnics, and after that there 



THE PAINTED ROCKS. 

were real Fourth of July speeches, and some of 
those Indians talked quite as well as man3^ of 
the white men who made speeches that day. 

The evening was given up to dancing and 
White Swan gave every dancer a present of 
bead work, and in the gray of the morning 
they began to ride awsij, all very happ3^ over 
the birth of the nation that took their great 
land from them. 



THE PAINTED ROCKS. 

A LEGEND. 

A great many 3^ears ago, so long that not 
even the oldest Indian can remember it, there 
lived a beautiful maiden, the daughter of old 
Anchie, chief of the Yakimas, and her father 
was so proud of her beauty and goodness that 
to him she w^as like the morning star that 
waits in the blue sky until the kingW sun is 
well on his journe\^, and then modestly hides 
her face. So he called her ''Star of the Morn- 
ing," and so tender was he of her that scarcely 
a brave in the tribe dared approach her to of- 
fer a gift of the most priceless ermine skin or 



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the plumage from the sh3^ and beatiful ptar- 
migen, which all the yotmg men hunted eager- 
Ijy hoping to please the princess, for all the 
people loved her. 

Still she loved none of the warriors, until 
one day ^^oung Strong Heart bowed before her 
with no offering but a tender flower, and 
when the princess saw him she paled and 
trembled just as the morning star pales before 
the sun and she went to her father's wigwam 
and knelt before him on a robe of bearskin and 
said: ^ 'Oh, my father, you have long wished 
that among the young men of our tribe might 
be found one worthy to take jour place as 
chieftain of the people, but 3^ou have ever been 
kind and patient v^ith 3^our child when none 
of them could touch her heart. Now at last 
have I seen one who is above all others and 
before whose eyes m^^ heart fluttered like the 
tender leaves on the aspen tree, and now if it 
please 3^ou, call Strong Heart and tell him his 
gift is lying on my breast.'* 

Then the old chief was glad and called 
Strong Heart, and at once there was a great 
feast spread, for all the Yakimas loved Strong 
Heart and Morning Star, and so they were 
happih^ married. 



THE PAINTED ROCKS. 



But in the neighboring tribe of the Klicki- 
tats was a young chief who was very bitter 




PETER BROWN-A KLICKITAT. 

w^hen he heard the stor^^ and he said to him- 
self: ''Morning Star w^ould not so much as 
look at the gifts I brought her, though they 
were costlv and beautiful. Let her beware!" 



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And he incited his people to war against the 
Yakimas so that ab(3ut a 3^ear after the mar- 
riage there was a great battle fought and the 
Klickitat chief carried the 3'oung Morning 
Star as a prisoner. 

Then did Strong Heart, who was now the 
chief, TOW to be avenged, and he gathered a 
great arm}^ of warriors and started in hot 
chase after the fl3^ing armj. At last, on the 
brow of a rocky hill overhinging the raging 
Natchez river, he overtook the Klickitats and 
demanded that the chief give him his wife 
and child. 

But his only answer vsras a shower of ar- 
rows , and so the two armies fought until but 
few Yakimas were left and the noble Strong 
Heart was almost alone wth his enem3^ Then 
the lovely Morning Star broke loose from her 
captors, and running to her husband she 
threw herself into his arms, cr\4ng: 

''0, my chief, since 3^ou must die let me die 
with 3^ou, for nw life is nothing if a'ou 
leave me.'' 

And while the cruel Klickitat chieftain smiled 
at the thought that he should soon put Strong 
Heart to death b\' torture and keep for his 
own the lovely princess, Strong Heart turned 



THE PAINTED ROCKS. 

and with one swift stride reached the edge of 
the rocky wall, and before the astonished war- 
riors could stop him he had plnnged with his 
wife in his arms into the surging waters of the 
Natchez, and so they perished together for the 
love of each other. 

Then the Klickitats drew away, and after 
a time the cunning men of the Yakimas came 
and on the rocks above the river they painted 
the story of the battle and the deeds of Strong 
Heart, and to this day the pictures may be 
seen as plain and bright as though they were 
done yesterday. 



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